kidnappings

Parents wait for news about the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga students in Kuriga, Kaduna, Nigeria, on March 9, 2024. Nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state have been released, the state governor said Sunday, March 24, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school.

Nearly 300 abducted Nigerian schoolchildren freed after over two weeks in captivity

12:14pm March 24, 2024

by The Associated Press

Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests.

Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria's northwest region Thursday morning and abducted between 200 and 300 students, according to authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week.

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10 years after Chibok, Nigeria's mass kidnappings return with a vengeance

5:12pm March 08, 2024

by Kate Bartlett

In just a week there have been two mass kidnappings in Nigeria. Hundreds of women and children have been kidnapped in recent days in Africa's most populous country.

Children stand in the courtyard of the Maison La Providence de Dieu orphanage it Ganthier, Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021, where a gang abducted 17 missionaries from a U.S.-based organization. The 400 Mawozo gang, notorious for brazen ki

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U.S. and Haiti are seeking the release of 17 missionaries snatched by a gang

2:35pm October 18, 2021

by The Associated Press

Authorities seek the release of the 16 Americans and one Canadian kidnapped in Haiti over the weekend. On Monday, unions and other organizations launched a strike to protest worsening security.

A view down a busy street in Port au Prince, Haiti. Kidnappings in the country have already been worse in 2021 than years before.

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Haiti's kidnapping crisis is plunging the country even further into turmoil

3:05pm October 17, 2021

Seventeen missionaries were kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti on Saturday. It was the latest in what experts are calling a kidnapping crisis in the country — a crisis largely driven by one gang.

Abducted students of Government Science College Kagara sit in the state conference hall after being freed in Minna, Niger state, Nigeria, on Saturday.

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Dozens Of Kidnapped Nigerian Students Freed; Hundreds Of Others Still Missing

7:03pm February 27, 2021

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The students, who were taken from a school more than a week ago, say they were beaten by the kidnappers. Police are still looking for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped Friday.